Business structures, especially on large enterprises, are quite stable. This stability relates to real business assets behind these structures, such as production facilities and employees. Business processes express relations between these objectively existing business objects. This implies stability of these processes. To scrap process entirely, one must sell or dismiss production facilities, fire workers and [...]
The process of intellection. While BPM is an incredible technology to describe / model / automate business routine, imagination and creativity are principal irrationalities distinguishing real business from a perfect digital machine. No doubt, well designed business machine can become unrivaled in superior delivery of predefined business outcomes. However, it will never compete with human [...]
Perfect process is an abstraction, which predefines and motivates all development of BPM. Perfect process does not exist literally in most cases. Rather, it serves as an asymptotic, which represents a reference point for any process improvement. In this sense, perfect process is a cornerstone and an ultimate goal of process mapping, analysis and governance [...]